| Show r What Pennsylvania Eleven Did This Year on Football Field Dan Dau Alexander a graduate of the tho University UnI of Utah who T T.- T. now attending attending attending attend attend- I ing ing- school at Pennsylvania believes es Pennsylvania l anin has good reason to claim I second honors and possibly first t among the te Eastern schools Dan han ban this dope on tho on-tho tho play pIny of tho the bl big teams team Sa Sporting ortin Editor In a recent recant Issue of your ybur ur valuable paper you ou published a n re resume resume re- re sume of the tho football en written Neason-written on written apparently apparent h by your O lT Now York corre corre- In In which you gave tho the following fol oh- oh lowing rating of tin the Eastern football teams 1 Yale 2 Princeton 3 Carlisle Car Car- Carlisle lisle 4 1 Pennsylvania l anla 5 Cornell 6 C Harvard With all aU duo luo respect ct to your to-your your New ew York correspondent I can not but fool feel that h he d did himself and Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- Pennsylvania vania a gro gross gros s injustice In the tho first place Carlisle because of her lax li nn and questionable eligibility code corle Is not recognized In tho the East Enst as ns abona a abona abona bona tide lido collo lato team and l Is therefore therefore there thoro- fore ote looked upon as ns an nn In the athletic world and not considered when settling nettling accounts Recounts between en the hip big universities Dropping Carlisle as ns It Is Isfall fair fall to do your co correspondent would have c placed d Penns Pennsylvania third The question which h bothers me mc now Is h by what right was placed d t second and furthermore is Yale Yalo clearly clear clear- I ly prat t I. I A glance at tho the scorn made mado this year shows how Yalo YaJo to have o rolled up SOS OS pollute point to her opponents 10 Princeton 8 to toler It ler r opponents 23 and Pennsylvania 26 to lo her opponents 40 10 Yale Yalo played In all 11 four Important nt games those n against West Point Brown Bron Princeton ton and liar Har yard vard Princeton's strength was waN tested by Cornell Indians and Yale Yalo anI only three big games ams while Pennsylvania met besides he- he Hides sides her smaller opponents 1 I more mor who Annapolis lR 0 0 O I t Drown Indians Lafayette State 8 8 6 6 victors over Cornell and the team that I came to defeating Yalo last Jast year that Walter Waller Camps Camp's refused to tr try conclusions with them again this I year far Michigan and ImI Important important Im Im- im- im I games losing only tho one to 1 tho h Inta Indians The Tho Indian game belr being such an nn overwhelming overwhelming over over- whelming defeat for 1 Pennsylvania gave hor her more of or a n. blackleg than she pile pd tI Tho The game clime came Just one ODe week cele after atter the thc hard harl game with Brown Drown which had taxed Penns Penn's team a trifle too strongly for tor their then they ph physical condition andas and is ts a consequence Penn was In tho the midst of ot a terrible slump and played most miserable orl ble football The Tho defeat at too W was WOH R due dup Iti lh many respects ot to Penns Penn's sy system 85 s- s tem tom which Is to develop her team slow but Sure auro uro so that b by tho the time tima she meets Michigan nn and Cornell her t team am Is at its ita host Tho game against the Haft Indians is In the tho middle of h her r tlE season n. n on and consequently tho the thoroughly trained aborigine usually carry away the tho Quaker t scalp calp Tl truo true that Princeton defeated the Indians just ono one week weCk l later Rut nut the field was WILS muddy and anel too Upper slippery to tomake tomako make mako tho the Indians put put forward pass effects Then too Princeton's tons team wasat was wasat wasat at Its best n against the Indians nd played ply play od ed a game amo far tar superior to lo that put rut up against Yale two weeks later Inter Nor or or did Princeton tan fall to profit by Penns Penn's experience ex- ex experience ex ex- for not fewer than five fI Princeton Princeton Prin Prin- ceton coaches 8 watched d the Penn Car game from tho the side Ide line lines Surely however cr tho the splendor of or an otherwise brilliant leaE reason n was not blotted out b by that gamo game alone Let us then thon shift our unit of ot measurement from the Indians to Cornell whose magnificent team this year wax was the terror of th the East Elst Cornell defeated Princeton 6 6 5 S and every cry sporting writ writ- r-r r present agreed that the Tigers l S lay lay- cd ed in exceptional luck as tho the Big BIt lied Hod t team was fully tUlly three touchdowns their superiors Fresh from this victory victor Cornell Cornell Cornell Cor Cor- nell defeated 11 West est Point 12 10 12 10 which latter team had but bul a n short time before kp t Yale Tale entirely on the thc d defensive In InO Ina Ina Ina a 0 O 0 game ame The Tho Arm Army boys declared e Cornell tho he hell beet in the the country countr ry an and anIt it t was as th their lr un unstinted support that made I the Big Ig Reds 10 lo 7 7 favorites over oer Penn In ht t r annual game arne Thanksgiving Day If It Corn Cornell ll hart had won wp n that game ame she would have been vot voted d on a per par with I Yale YaI How 1 omes It it then that P Penn nn Ater I playing rings nus around the Big Reds Heets v. v v.-h. v. i declared to be without I were wert a peer poor is given nothing nothIng- better than third plat The score of 1 12 12 1 1 1 does not t tell tu ll lb the story of Penns Penn's superiority for fl 1 Cite e p times limes the sons of ot Old Penn tarried carried th the ball from midfield ml In old and crossed Cornell's goal line before before-a a touchdown was finally hallo hal final ly lo allowed ed Inch hash time they wore were penalized penal penal- I i ed for questionable offenses gor Ivory expert at the game admitted ell that Pennsylvania uncorked the greatest greatest greatest great great- I est variety of plays s and gave the most versatile exhibition of how the forward I pass 1 pass S can cnn be used of anything yet ret shown on nn any gridiron Lien Even Walter Valter Camp amp who holds the picture of or Yale Yalo so close J to lo his eyes that ho falls to A see c- c cnn am nn anything any any- thing thIn of or the greater world behind It t. t remarked that 11 it was TOns u IL remarkable I game The New York Tork papers all staid and an 1 staunch supporters of ot Old Ell BlI do de- I I Ian Glared that Penns Penn's team was without an equal in that game ame Had Yale and I Pennsylvania met after that th game or for tOI that gamo game the score would probably ly h havo been even e larger Now ow I have ha not written this with nn any intention to throw a 0 shadow o over r tho good rood work of Yalo or t far from it ft but hut merely in n 0 spIrIt of fair 1 play 11 to Pennsylvania I have ha tried d to bo ho eOn conservative nat In all aU I r have hoo said and an any data tn given I cn is from official reports But Dut I was anxious ln lous to learn how your our learned New e York correspondent came by bj hl his conclusions as 8 he did Sincerely relO yours V DAN ALEXANDER Law Jaw University of P Pennsylvania Penn Penn- nu- nu I sylvania 5 1 VA n lit I |
